“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
-John F. Kennedy
Character
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
-Aristotle
Fortitude
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
-Virginia Woolfe
Wisdom
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
-Helen Keller
Simplicity
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.”
-Confucius
Character
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
-Plato
Vision
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
-Voltaire
Happiness
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
-Marcus Aurelius
Character
“Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.”
-John F. Kennedy
Simplicity
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
-Isaac Newton
Wisdom
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
-Bruce Lee
Delusion
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
-Albert Einstein
Wisdom
“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.”
-Malcolm X
Wisdom
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”
-George Clooney
Kindness
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s also important to be nice. Never forget that.”
-Sacha Baron Cohen
Attitude
“Take a long pause, breathe, and know that things are happening for you, not to you.”
-Ashton Kutcher
Service
“You should never take more than you give.”
-Elton John
Simplicity
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
-Coco Chanel
Wisdom
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
-Plato
Destiny
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
-William Shakespeare
